DocumentCode :
2977263
Title :
Channel Modeling and MIMO Capacity for Outdoor Millimeter Wave Links
Author :
Zhang, Hong ; Venkateswaran, Sriram ; Madhow, Upamanyu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fYear :
2010
fDate :
18-21 April 2010
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
Recent work has shown that mesh networks based on short-range outdoor millimeter (mm) wave links in the unlicensed 60 GHz band are a promising approach to providing an easily deployable broadband infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate the robustness of such links, focusing in particular on the effect of multipath fading resulting from reflections from the ground and building walls for a lamppost deployment of mm wave nodes. Our ray tracing based model shows that, while only a small number of paths are significant for the highly directional links considered, they can cause significant fluctuations in the received signal strength. Our simulations show that 10-20 dB fades below the benchmark of free space propagation can occur quite easily (e.g., 5-15% of the time, averaging across typical deployment scenarios), and that the received power is extremely sensitive to small variations in geometry (e.g., altering the position of the antenna by 1 cm can reduce the received power as much as 46.7 dB). We also demonstrate, however, that extremely robust performance can be obtained by employing multiple antennas at appropriately chosen separations, using standard space-time communications strategies such as transmit precoding (when the transmitter knows the channel) and space-time coding (when the transmitter does not know the channel).
Keywords :
MIMO communication; antenna arrays; broadband antennas; broadband networks; millimetre wave antennas; ray tracing; space-time codes; MIMO capacity; channel modeling; deployable broadband infrastructure; frequency 60 GHz; multipath fading; multiple antennas; outdoor millimeter wave links; ray tracing; space-time coding; transmit precoding; Fading; Fluctuations; Geometry; MIMO; Mesh networks; Ray tracing; Reflection; Robustness; Solid modeling; Transmitters;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
ISSN :
1525-3511
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6396-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506714
Filename :
5506714
Link To Document :
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